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Do the left and right tie rods have different threads? I've loosened the passenger side nut but not the drivers side. 240Z 1971 Help

I had her up on jack stands and stood about a 12" piece of 6x6 up on the jack and lifted her up. But the block and jack wanted to slide out once she was up high enough. I had to hold the jack in place while someone put the cubes under the tires

I dont believe the 510 has a rheostat

My new check valve came in today so I will be seeing how it performs on the car compared to the one I have currently. I suspect it will be identical, but we will see. I was walking the dog the other morning and a thought came to my mind. My brake pedal has great initial bite, but then goes hard as a rock, with no give in the pedal. I also recalled that while the car is in neutral, I cannot roll it. At all. Takes every ounce of strength to push it. When all parts were more 'fresh', I could push it up and down the garage with relative ease with one hand. Just to further flush this out, I am jacked up both sides by the diff adn wanted to see if I could spin the rear tires with the car in neutral. NADA. Drums are darn near seizing up the rear end. How long has this been going on? Not sure, I drove it around town about a month ago. No issues, but again, car did not want to roll without engine help. I now suspect something is amiss with the wheel cylinders / emergency brake adjustment. Perhaps a complete brake overhaul is not needed. Maybe just a refresh of the rear and some better pads would do on all four corners. I think rear disks would be a worthy upgrade. Anybody running around with just a rear disk brake swap.

Yes. I've had the turbo motor sitting here for a decade, and the original plan was to go turbo, but I changed my mind and want to keep it N/A and make it what I might have done back in the day to hop it up for a, "somewhat period-correct street rod" that is clean and simple under the hood, with not a lot of spaghetti or that immediately looks like it has been modded. Of course, I want to keep it easily-returnable to its stock configuration and will be keeping the original, numbers-matching L24 and the rest of the original bits. My plan is to bore to 89mm add flat-top pistons and new rods, L-Spec Datsun-worked head (shaved, ported, new springs, SS valves, valve guides, stage 2 or 3 cam and cam tower shims). I just purchased the A123 electronic ignition distributor, Champion radiator with fans and will be doing the GM alternator conversion, light flywheel, performance damper, turbo oil pump and keeping the dual SU's. More than I bargained for, but I think I will end up with a really nice driver that will satisfy my butt dyno!

I am near Canada:)

$840 (plus shipping) at Motorsport Auto.

And a white picket fence… so American!

I don't think it did. However, test and eliminate.

I appreciate the clarification. The articles I read did not provide that information.

I wasn't there when they made the exhaust manifolds, but my assumption would be the same. I would expect they were raw uncoated cast iron. Maybe a thin coat of oil so they didn't flash rust in the parts bin, but that would burn off in the first few minutes of engine running.

Glad to help. Hope you make good progress and get things working well soon!

I stole this cassette from my step-a s s hole when I was a kid. When cassettes where still off white colored, before the clear ones. I listened to it so much I still know every word to all the songs but this was my favorite.

It doesn’t seem to be.

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Thank you, Buddy.

Hi Bob: If you are still looking for a welder I would recommend Elhot Metal Fabrication. He is working inhouse at the Shop club on 6th Ave S. He has done rust repair on 3 of my cars over the last 20 years and he is top notch. Of course with 30 years of experience, he's not cheap. Cheers, Mark G

Update. It's been several months when I posted questions about a soft feeling brake pedal in my 79 zx. I checked the vacuun check valve and found it to be defective. I didn't even use my vacuum test equipment but instead just removed it and blew and sucked through it and knew it wasn't holding vacuum. I replaced it and now have very good, stock brakes again.

Yes, take it a lock smith. If the core can be removed from the cylinder it isn't that difficult to make a key. Key blanks are common. I can't recall if the core is wafers or pins. Come to think of it, it's a double cut key, so it would be a wafer lock. To remove the core from the cylinder without a key, not a big deal to pick the lock. I have no idea what a lock smith would charge, but it's not a big deal. When I closed my business I kept all the key blanks, I probably have what you need. Jim

This was a clue that it was an electrical problem. If the engine was still spinning because it was in gear then spark will still move the tachometer needle.

I think you may find @26th-Z and @Carl Beck already have most if not all of the documents. I've hoovered them up for my archive. Will be interesting to see what if goes for this time, I think it sold at least once or maybe twice since the last BAT appearance 6 years ago.

Any update. I suspect a gas tank from S30 World might be in my future along with Vapor Lines from Resurrected Classics.

I pulled the computer out and took it apart. It looks really good, so I put it back together and started on the ignition module replacement. I followed this diagram that I got from the knowledge base and tried it out, but no joy. I didnt see anything about needing to run it through the ballast resistor, so I left it out of the new circuit. Im not sure which side is + on the coil so I put the new green wire where the old one was. I found another post that had a resistance measurement for the pickup coil. Looks like its suppose to be around 720ohms. Ill check that next time im out. Im sure im missing something, but im was too tired to really use my brain. The module is bolted to the throttle body temporarily. And I broke out my new plug wires as well. Anyone have any suggestions?